The phrase "blood and treasure" or "lives and treasure" has been used to refer to the human and monetary costs associated with massive endeavours such as war that expend both.

Treasure hunting

Searching for hidden treasure is a common theme in legend; treasure hunters do exist, and can seek lost wealth for a living.

Buried treasure

A buried treasure is an important part of the popular beliefs surrounding pirates. According to popular conception, pirates often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, intending to return for them later (often with the use of treasure maps).

There are three well known stories that helped popularize the myth of buried pirate treasure: "The Gold-Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Wolfert Webber" by Washington Irving and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. They differ widely in plot and literary treatment but all are derived from the William Kidd legend. Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's "Wolfert Webber", Stevenson saying in his preface "It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther.. the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters.. were the property of Washington Irving."

Church treasure

A church treasure (German:Kirchenschatz) is the collection of historical art treasures belonging to a church, usually a monastery (monastery treasure), abbey, cathedral. Such "treasure" is usually held and displayed in the church's treasury or in a diocesan museum. Historically the highlight of church treasures was often a collection of reliquaries.

As a result of gifts and the desire to acquire sacred artifacts, many churches over the centuries gathered valuable and historic collections of altar plate, illuminated manuscripts of liturgical or religious books, as well as vestments, and other works of art or items of historical interest. Despite iconoclasm, secularism, looting, fire, the enforced sale of treasure in times of financial difficulty, theft and other losses, much of this treasure has survived or has even been repurchased. Many large churches have been displaying their riches to visitors in some form for centuries.

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Shipwreck

A shipwreck is the remains of a ship that has wrecked, which are found either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. Shipwrecking may be deliberate or accidental. UNESCO estimates that worldwide over 3 million shipwrecks, some thousands of years old, lie on seabeds.

Types

Historic wrecks are attractive to maritime archaeologists because they preserve historical information: for example, studying the wreck of Mary Rose revealed information about seafaring, warfare, and life in the 16th century. Military wrecks, caused by a skirmish at sea, are studied to find details about the historic event; they reveal much about the battle that occurred. Discoveries of treasure ships, often from the period of European colonisation, which sank in remote locations leaving few living witnesses, such as the Batavia, do occur but only very infrequently.
Some contemporary wrecks, such as the oil tankers Prestige or Erika, are of interest primarily because of their potential harm to the environment. Other contemporary wrecks are scuttled in order to spur reef growth, such as Adolphus Busch and the Ocean Freeze. Wrecks like Adolphus Busch and historic wrecks such as SSThistlegorm are of interest to recreational divers that dive to shipwrecks because they are interesting to explore, provide large habitats for many types of marine life, and have an interesting history.

The phrase "blood and treasure" or "lives and treasure" has been used to refer to the human and monetary costs associated with massive endeavours such as war that expend both.

Treasure hunting

Searching for hidden treasure is a common theme in legend; treasure hunters do exist, and can seek lost wealth for a living.

Buried treasure

A buried treasure is an important part of the popular beliefs surrounding pirates. According to popular conception, pirates often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, intending to return for them later (often with the use of treasure maps).

There are three well known stories that helped popularize the myth of buried pirate treasure: "The Gold-Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Wolfert Webber" by Washington Irving and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. They differ widely in plot and literary treatment but all are derived from the William Kidd legend. Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's "Wolfert Webber", Stevenson saying in his preface "It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther.. the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters.. were the property of Washington Irving."

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FORT PIERCE, Fla ... The group that raised the cannon owns the rights to the shipwreck and says it might have been carrying a treasure of silver coins ... Divers found it in only 20 feet of water ... ....

The KeyWestShipwreckTreasure Museum is back in business. The museum at 1 Whitehead St. reopened July 13 after renovating its 65-foot-high tower. As part of the reopening, the museum began offering free entry to all Monroe County residents this month through Sept. 30. The tower is known for providing ... ....

Coast Guard public affairs officer Lt ... “Better safe than sorry,” she said ... Terry Martin, a diving instructor for PortsmouthScuba, told the Portsmouth Herald that Hart’s Cove is known among scuba divers as a favorite location for treasure hunting ... Gingrich also found a pair of old cannons underwater in the cove, where there’s a shipwreck nearby, she said. “It’s known for treasure hunting,” Martin said ... ....

Coast Guard public affairs officer Lt ... "Better safe than sorry," she said ... Terry Martin, a diving instructor for PortsmouthScuba, told the Portsmouth Herald that Hart's Cove is known among scuba divers as a favorite location for treasure hunting ... Gingrich also found a pair of old cannons underwater in the cove, where there's a shipwreck nearby, she said. "It's known for treasure hunting," Martin said ... ___ ... .......

A deep sea treasure hunter has claimed a Nasa astronaut discovered the wreckage of ‘something from another world’ buried among the shipwrecks beneath the Bermuda Triangle. Darrell Miklos, an explorer whose search for underwater booty has featured in two seasons of a Discovery Channel documentary series Cooper’sTreasure, uses maps created by his friend, Nasa astronaut Gordon Cooper, to find shipwrecks....

Discovery Channel show Cooper's Treasure will apparently air the discovery of an unexplained object which is being referred to as a UFO. The series sees explorer Darrell Miklos and his team following secret maps created by former NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper in the 1960s to unearth shipwrecks in the Caribbean... "It was a formation unlike anything I've ever seen related to shipwreck material, it was too big for that....

From Indiana Jones to NationalTreasure, Hollywood has always loved its treasure hunts ... a series of shipwrecks—hundreds of them, in fact—discovered by the late astronaut Gordon Cooper during a space expedition ... But the treasure hunter said he has no intention of giving up any time soon—especially after finding shipwreck material in all five of the spots he and his team have located so far....

Terry Martin, a diving instructor for PortsmouthScuba, said Hart’s Cove is known among scuba divers as a favorite location for treasure hunting ... Gingrich also found a pair of old cannons underwater in the cove, where there’s a shipwreck nearby, she said ... Martin said in the 1970s and 1980s, divers would go into the cove with blowers to turn up treasures ... “It’s known for treasure hunting,” Martin said....

Miklos, 55, described what he found while filming episode seven of Cooper'sTreasure and tells how he and his team want to bring the 'alien spaceship' to the surface 'It was a formation unlike anything I've ever seen related to shipwreck material, it was too big for that ... But Miklos says Cooper - an avid treasure hunter - also noted the positions of ......

The old maxim, “finders keepers” has not held when it comes to sunken treasure found off the coast of Florida. A shipwreck was found by U.S.- based sea excavation crew GlobalMarine Enterprises (GME), who argued in court that because they found the precious cargo, the artifacts and valuable antiquities should rightfully be theirs to salvage....